King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 6:9
“Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 6
7
All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9
Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10
That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
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Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
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